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Program taps public lands to improve public health
This week, National Park Service brass took to California to push its new Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative. Visitors walk…
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AHCJ joins objections to proposed cuts to federal transparency websites
All eyes are on the federal budget negotiations today, with most attention focused on whether or not an impasse will…
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Spotlight on health care quality, measures
The April issue of Health Affairs focuses on the quality of health care in the United States. Some highlights of…
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Research into ‘chemobrain’ making progress
In the most recent issue of Cure, AHCJ member Elaine Schattner, M.D., examines “chemobrain,” a term used to describe cognitive…
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Series brings readers’ perspectives to obesity story
Weight loss and obesity stories are a pillar of health journalism and a flashpoint for reader interest, but they have…
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Drug-funded research group failed to disclose ties to makers of painkillers
In his latest conflict of interest investigation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber takes on a challenge that, even by…
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An inside view of writing for New York Times’ Magazine
On the blog The OPEN Notebook, New York Times Magazine contributor Robin Marantz Henig spoke frankly with Jeanne Erdmann about…
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Coverage of insurance exchanges needs context
During the past few days, I have read quite a bit of local coverage about health insurance exchanges from about …
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Presidents of AHCJ, SPJ call for more openness from Obama administration
The presidents of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists published an op-ed in The…
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Sponsored segments, hospital partnerships creep into news outlets
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blythe Bernhard takes a look at the fruits of the slow, steady advances hospitals and…
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